BST 290 Seminar Series
Tuesday, April 14th, 2015, 4:10pm, MSB 1147 (Colloquium Room)
Refreshments at 3:30pm in MSB 4110 (Statistics Lounge)
Speaker: Bryan Langholz (University of Southern California)
Title: An introduction to the design and analysis of nested case-control studies
Abstract: Nested case-control sampling is general approach to sampling persons from large cohort studies to evaluate exposure-disease relationships in which “risk sets” defined by failure times are independently sampled. In this talk, I will introduce the design and analysis of nested case-control sampling focusing on examples of studies that have used the approach including a studies of gene-expression score and breast cancer death, therapeutic radiation treatment, and breast cancer risk, and endometrial hyperplasia and the endometrial cancer risk.